Ormond Plantation

Pierre Trepagnier, a sugar planter and slaveholder, finished the house shortly before 1789. His widow sold it in 1805 to Richard Butler, who renamed it for Ormonde Castle in County Tipperary. Captain Samuel McCutchon took over Butler's holdings in 1819. After the Civil War the estate declined and was sold at public auctions in 1874 and 1875. The Schexnaydre family held it until 1926, and Alfred Brown, of Brown's Velvet Dairy, began a restoration in 1943. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 0.8 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Watercolors — steps away
• Hale Boggs Bridge — 0.4 mi
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 0.4 mi
• "Denver" — 0.7 mi